Issues in the Political Economy of Health Care

Originally published in 1984, this book attempted to fill a gap by providing a broad-ranging structural analysis of the health care sector and the political and economic forces which influence its shape and contents, both in the western world and developing countries.

List of contents

Part 1: The Social Production of Health and Illness 1. Capitalism, Health and Illness 2. A Cultural Account of 'health': Control, Release, and the Social Body Part 2: Capital Interests and the Role of the State 3. The crisis of the International Capitalist Order and Its Implications on the Welfare State Vincente Navarro Part 3: Selected Issues 4. Organizing Medical Care for Profit 5. The Transnational Pharmaceutical Industry and The Health of the World's People6. Physicians and their Sponsors: The New Medical Relations of Production Part 4: The Penetration of the Developing World By the Transnational Medical Industrial Complex 7. The Political Economy of Western Medicine in Third World Countries.

About the author

John B. McKinlay was Professor of Sociology and Research Professor of Medicine at Boston University, USA.

Summary

Originally published in 1984, this book attempted to fill a gap by providing a broad-ranging structural analysis of the health care sector and the political and economic forces which influence its shape and contents, both in the western world and developing countries.

Product details

• Authors: John B. Mckinlay
• Assisted by: John B. Mckinlay (Editor), McKinlay John B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032257570
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225757-0
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, MEDICAL / Health Policy, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects